[Buildroot] [PATCH/next] makedevs: remove target package

Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) arnout at mind.be
Wed Nov 23 14:14:04 UTC 2016


The makedevs package is a fork of the makedevs tool from busybox. It is
part of the Buildroot infrastructure, not something that should be used
on the target. It something like this is needed on the target, upstream
busybox should be used. And if one of the Buildroot-specific features
is needed, then that feature should be upstreamed to busybox.

Besides, there were already two things wrong with the target package:
- it didn't take into account the overlap with busybox (no depends on
  BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_SHOW_OTHERS, no dependency on busybox);
- it didn't take into account the libcap feature.

The target package was introduced more or less accidentally in 81cd9d45
where the intention was to make it more similar to other packages.

So, kill it with fire.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>
---
No biggy for me, I just noticed "Hey, this is weird...".
---
 Config.in.legacy             |  7 +++++++
 package/Config.in            |  1 -
 package/makedevs/Config.in   |  5 -----
 package/makedevs/makedevs.mk | 10 ----------
 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 package/makedevs/Config.in

diff --git a/Config.in.legacy b/Config.in.legacy
index 53fcf4e..a3b1379 100644
--- a/Config.in.legacy
+++ b/Config.in.legacy
@@ -145,6 +145,13 @@ endif
 ###############################################################################
 comment "Legacy options removed in 2017.02"
 
+config BR2_PACKAGE_MAKEDEVS
+	bool "makedevs removed"
+	select BR2_LEGACY
+	help
+	  The makedevs tool is part of busybox. The Buildroot fork
+	  should not be used outside of the Buildroot infrastructure.
+
 config BR2_PACKAGE_SNOWBALL_HDMISERVICE
 	bool "snowball-hdmiservice removed"
 	select BR2_LEGACY
diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index b2e1a2a..b076dfd 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -170,7 +170,6 @@ menu "Filesystem and flash utilities"
 	source "package/genext2fs/Config.in"
 	source "package/genpart/Config.in"
 	source "package/genromfs/Config.in"
-	source "package/makedevs/Config.in"
 	source "package/mmc-utils/Config.in"
 	source "package/mtd/Config.in"
 	source "package/mtools/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/makedevs/Config.in b/package/makedevs/Config.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 923150d..0000000
--- a/package/makedevs/Config.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-config BR2_PACKAGE_MAKEDEVS
-	bool "makedevs"
-	help
-	  The makedevs utility allows to create a set of device files
-	  according to a configuration file.
diff --git a/package/makedevs/makedevs.mk b/package/makedevs/makedevs.mk
index 95933c4..9bd684f 100644
--- a/package/makedevs/makedevs.mk
+++ b/package/makedevs/makedevs.mk
@@ -15,15 +15,6 @@ HOST_MAKEDEVS_CFLAGS += -DEXTENDED_ATTRIBUTES
 HOST_MAKEDEVS_LDFLAGS += -lcap
 endif
 
-define MAKEDEVS_BUILD_CMDS
-	$(TARGET_CC) $(TARGET_CFLAGS) $(TARGET_LDFLAGS) \
-		package/makedevs/makedevs.c -o $(@D)/makedevs
-endef
-
-define MAKEDEVS_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS
-	$(INSTALL) -D -m 755 $(@D)/makedevs $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/sbin/makedevs
-endef
-
 define HOST_MAKEDEVS_BUILD_CMDS
 	$(HOSTCC) $(HOST_MAKEDEVS_CFLAGS) package/makedevs/makedevs.c \
 		-o $(@D)/makedevs $(HOST_MAKEDEVS_LDFLAGS)
@@ -33,5 +24,4 @@ define HOST_MAKEDEVS_INSTALL_CMDS
 	$(INSTALL) -D -m 755 $(@D)/makedevs $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin/makedevs
 endef
 
-$(eval $(generic-package))
 $(eval $(host-generic-package))
-- 
2.10.2



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